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No.-102. 1861. WnoLE No. 1,467.

Slate. Roofing.

DANIEL RICKERBY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' Lcllm's Iqlcntfor a Design No. 102, dnled Ailgust 13, 1861.

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SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known, that I, DANIEL RtcKmmY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new design for Slate Roofing, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact. description, reference being haiLto the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which- Fig. 1Lis a perspective view of a portion .of a root, showing the design formed by the slates,'when laid.

Figs. 2 and 3, the two forms in which the slates are out.

The object of my p esent invention is, to produce a design for slate roofing for buildings, which shall be more ornamental and attractive in its appearance than the ordinary rooting formed of rectangular slates laid in straight lines, and my invention consists in the new design for slate roofing, represented in fig. l, which is produced from slates cut in the formsshown in figs. 2 and 3, placed and secured in alternate layers on the roof. I

' That othersskilled in the art may understand and use my invertion, I will proceed to describe the'mannor in which I have carried out the same. I

t In the said drawings, A, fig. 2, represents one ofthe slates detached. It is cut 'at oneend into the form shown, that is, with the contour of its end formed of four s traightlines 1 2 3 4, with a point a projecting from the niiddle of its width. Anotherslate B, fig. 3, is out at one end, as shown, with three straight lines t5 6 7, which form the faces of an octagon, of which the width of the slate would bethe diameter. These slates are nailed to the root in the ordinary manner, in

2 ES PATENT Omen, 1861.Nq; 102.

Riekerby'e Design for Slate Raging.

the position shown in fig. 1, commencing with row of square slates, to form a straight edge at the eaves, next a row of the slates B, and oier these a. row of the sides A, tho'rows breaking joint with each other.

' The portion of the slate B, which is laid to the weather, forms, when in position, an octagon, end the weather of the slate A forms s ten-sided figure, as shown in Kg. 1. v

Claim.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Potent is, the above design for slitting, produced by the use of slates A and B, as specified.

DANL. RICKERBY.

Witnesses Tnoe. 1t. Boson, P. E. Tmcnnxscnss. 

